Sounding wheeled toy



C H. AVERY.

SOUNDING WHEELED TOY.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 2. 1920.

1,432,52, Pat/smell 0on7, 1922,

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UNIV]? E TATS than CLYDE HENRY AVERY, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

SOUNDING WHEELED TOY.

Application filed September 2, 1920.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CLYDE H. AV RY, a citizen of the United States, and resident of Boston, in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Sounding lVheeled Toys, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relatesto toys, and has for its object to provide a device of this character which while of inexpensive and very durable construction embodies novel features adapted to afford considerable amusement by the production of sounds simulating those produced by explosions of gun powder; a further object being the provision of a plaything of this character which can be safely manipulated by a child without any liability of injury, while at the same time it automatically produces loud booming sounds of a character calculated to amuse a healthy child; the device being especially applicable? as a substitute for dangerous fire crackers which in various communities are now taboo.

In carrying out my invention I employ a miniature wheeled vehicle, a sounding device, a sound amplifier and a framework for mounting the parts, all as hereinafter fully described and especially set forth in the annexed claims.

In the accompanying drawings forming part of this specification, Figure 1 is a plan view illustrating my improvements. Fig. 2 is a side view, drawn on a reduced scale; and Fig. 3 is a detail cross section taken on the line 3-3 of Fig. 1.

In the example of my invention as embodied in the drawings, 1 indicates a metal or other suitable frame comprising a loop 2, having parallel side extension 3, and a lateral cross brace 1, to which is attached, by means of angle-iron members 5, a tongue 6, making a handle for the device, said tongue being formed from a metal tube having a flattened end part for connection with said angle-iron members.

Fixed within the loop 2 is a hollow sound amplifier 7 which opens rearwardly and is closed at its sides, top and bottom, and may be provided through its top and bottom walls with apertures 8.

Fixed to the free end of each extension 3 of the frame 1 is an inwardly extended hanger 9, for carrying an axle 10, the ends Serial No. 407,653.

of said axle being journaled in said hangers, whereby the axle may have free rotary movement.

Fixed, one to each end part of the axle 10, are traction wheels 11, 11 the wheel 11 having an enlarged hub-extension 12 which carries a plurality of annularly arranged pins 13.

Extended within the annular line of travel of the pins 13, is a resilient metal member 14, of a sounding board 15, which is hinged to. a hanger 16, extended rearwardly from the cross brace 41, said hanger being provided with an extension 17, to which one member of a hinge 18 is attached, the other member of said hinge being connected to the sounding-board 15, which is normally main tained in bearing relation with said sounding-board b the gravity of the extension 17 and its connected spring-member 14, when the frame is extended upwardly at an oblique angle from'the horizontal plane of the bearing surface of the traction wheels.

The toy may comprise only the parts above described embodying a two-wheeled miniature vehicle, but I may construct a toy having a third, or steering wheel 19 carried by a fork 20 which swings on a vertical axis of a hanger-bearing 21, as shown by Fig. 2 of the drawings.

In operation, when the vehicle is moved forwardly, the wheels 11, 11 rotate in the direction of the arrow 20, and the pins 13, as they strike the forward or upper surface of the spring 14 swing the free end of said spring downwardly against its normal tension, whereby when it is released it springs back and contacts with the sounding-board 15. producing a banging sound which is amplified by means of the hollow sound-amplitier 7 the hinged arrangement of the sounding-board admitting of lifting said board without sounding as the pins contact with the lower surface of the spring 14.

It is manifest that this toy may afford a considerable degree of amusement, permitting a child to produce a succession of booming cannon-like sounds without any liability of injury, thus I have provided a safe sub= stitute for explosives so generally sought after by children.

I do not confine myself to the specific mechanical construction and formation of parts hereinabove described, as it is obvious that under the spirit and scope of my invention I am entitled to the employment of slig h't structural variation.

In practice I may niount on the sound amplifier or other parts of the carriage miniature repesentations of guns, pointing in any direction as indicated by the dotted lines 22; and I ma use any adaptable design of carriage. l urther modifications of my design and appearance of the toy may be employed which embody the essential elements of my invention as set forth. in the claims. li'tl'ierefore do not confine myself to any specific design of gun carriage. Further, the toy may be successfully operated by moving it either forwardly or back Wardly; and? when a steering Wheel is used it may be located either in the rear or forward part of the carriage.

l l ax ing' tl'ius described my invention, What 1 claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is: p v

1. A toy comprising a sounding-board, a sprii'ig-k'nocker adjacent thereto, and hinge means for mounting said parts, and a ve hicle having project-ions on one of its Wheels for actuating said knocker, and a sound amplifier embodying, a hollow sheet metal chamber having an outlet adjacent to said sound producing device; I

2. A toy comprising a hinged sounding board, a spring-knocker carried thereby, a sound amplifier embodying a hollow sheet metal chamber having an outlet adjacent to said sounding-board and knocker, and a vehicle-carrying means for said parts having projections on one of its Wheels for actuating said ltnocker, whereby a succession of booming sounds may be'produced' as the ve'- hicle ismoved on a horizontal plane, and said sounds are amplifiedl '3. A toy comprising a sounding board, a spring knocker adjacent thereto, and hinge means for mountii'ig'said parts, and a vehicle having projections on one of its Wheels for actuating said knocker, and a sound amplifier en'il'jodying a hollow chamber having an outlet adj acent to said sound producing device.

Signed at office oft notary public, Boston,

in the county o'f'gu'fiolk and State of Massachusetts this 14th day of July, A. D. 1920 CLYDE HENRY AVERY. 

